ovirt and gluster disk config
Hey, been a few years since I looked at ovirt. 3 years probably and at the time I was looking for compute and storage all in one -and was advised not to basically. So Hyperconvergence is now a thing and want to try it out. I was looking at the blog - up and running with ovirt 4.1, but it seems that is mostly for a lab setup. I've got some real hardware I am going to try this out on as a PoC, 5 Dell R720s with 12 TB raw storage in each. Just wondered if there was a guide to the hardware setup of my storage that I am missing? Should I configure the storage as hardware RAID before I start installing the Nodes? I did setup glusterfs cluster 3 years ago as well but memory fails me on how I had the RAID controller setup if at all. Thanks
Unfortunately there is not a lot of info out there about ideal hardware configs for hyperconverged oVirt (at least not that I have found to date, and believe me I've looked). If you have enough drives and especially if they are spinning disks as far as I know your best option would likely be to do a RAID-10 config to make up a single glusterfs brick on each physical server. Raid-10 will add some performance benefits and also give you some options to replace failed disks without bringing the brick offline. The downfall is that you waste a ton of usable space with Raid + gluster because each offer redundancy. I'm about to build a 3 node hyperconverted oVirt setup on Dell R720s myself, but I'm planning on using two 2Tb SSDs in JBOD configuration per host w/ a gluster replica 3. I've gone back and forth on using JBOD or Raid config with SSDs and never did get a clear answer (online or asking on this mailing list). SSDs are too expensive right now to lose half usable space to raid then another half or more to gluster replication. On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:17 PM, <william.dossett@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, been a few years since I looked at ovirt. 3 years probably and at the time I was looking for compute and storage all in one -and was advised not to basically. So Hyperconvergence is now a thing and want to try it out. I was looking at the blog - up and running with ovirt 4.1, but it seems that is mostly for a lab setup. I've got some real hardware I am going to try this out on as a PoC, 5 Dell R720s with 12 TB raw storage in each. Just wondered if there was a guide to the hardware setup of my storage that I am missing? Should I configure the storage as hardware RAID before I start installing the Nodes? I did setup glusterfs cluster 3 years ago as well but memory fails me on how I had the RAID controller setup if at all.
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Hi Jayme, thanks for the info… yes I’ve been googling and googling… I run a few VMware VSANs at the moment so HCI is my specialty … even one in my basement 😊 going to upgrade that to all flash soon as the 2TB disks are getting cheaper! I tried doing this a couple of years back as my post says but it was pretty much undoable then. I guess I am going to go h/w raid to start and see how that is. I haven’t got the money to put SSD in the 720s, but I do have 10Gb networking so hoping that will help on speed… anyway, it’s a PoC so I am sure I will building and rebuilding a few times and trying to remember what I know of GlusterFS. Regards Bill From: Jayme [mailto:jaymef@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 6:25 AM To: william.dossett@gmail.com Cc: users <users@ovirt.org> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt and gluster disk config Unfortunately there is not a lot of info out there about ideal hardware configs for hyperconverged oVirt (at least not that I have found to date, and believe me I've looked). If you have enough drives and especially if they are spinning disks as far as I know your best option would likely be to do a RAID-10 config to make up a single glusterfs brick on each physical server. Raid-10 will add some performance benefits and also give you some options to replace failed disks without bringing the brick offline. The downfall is that you waste a ton of usable space with Raid + gluster because each offer redundancy. I'm about to build a 3 node hyperconverted oVirt setup on Dell R720s myself, but I'm planning on using two 2Tb SSDs in JBOD configuration per host w/ a gluster replica 3. I've gone back and forth on using JBOD or Raid config with SSDs and never did get a clear answer (online or asking on this mailing list). SSDs are too expensive right now to lose half usable space to raid then another half or more to gluster replication. On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:17 PM, <william.dossett@gmail.com <mailto:william.dossett@gmail.com> > wrote: Hey, been a few years since I looked at ovirt. 3 years probably and at the time I was looking for compute and storage all in one -and was advised not to basically. So Hyperconvergence is now a thing and want to try it out. I was looking at the blog - up and running with ovirt 4.1, but it seems that is mostly for a lab setup. I've got some real hardware I am going to try this out on as a PoC, 5 Dell R720s with 12 TB raw storage in each. Just wondered if there was a guide to the hardware setup of my storage that I am missing? Should I configure the storage as hardware RAID before I start installing the Nodes? I did setup glusterfs cluster 3 years ago as well but memory fails me on how I had the RAID controller setup if at all. Thanks _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org <mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org>
I'd be interested in what you guys come up with. I've had the same questions regarding RAID (or non-raid) & hardware. I wish there was some handy guide to follow.
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